Bluffton achieved its first perfect season winning 58-6 over Hilton Head in its last regular game Friday night. It also meant the team retained possession of the coveted Bridge Bowl Trophy for the second year in a row.

Hilton Head began the game on the receiving end, leaving Bluffton to receive to open the second half.

Seahawks and Bobcats went three-and-out for most of the first quarter until Bluffton quarterback C.J. Frazier found receiver Eric Boyles with a 12-yard pass for the first score of the game.

That’s not to say there weren’t a lot of dropped passes. Receivers on both sides had trouble holding on to the ball. When they did, gains made were often called back with flags on the play. In the first half alone, there were 65 penalty yards between both teams.

There were a total of 17 flags in the game, an unusually sloppy performance on the part of the Bobcats.

“We’ve just got to go back this week and go back to basics and take care of some of those things,” said Bluffton Head Coach Ken Cribb.

He made no excuse for his team but said there were a lot of distractions for his players in the past week, including being ranked No. 1 in the division, not knowing who their next opponent would be and “just being teenage boys,” Cribb said.

“It was a little messier than normal, but that’s high school football. If you think you’re going to play perfect every week, you’re wrong,” he said. “We’ve just got to try to avoid those things.”

To Bluffton’s credit, many of the Seahawk passes were blocked at the line of scrimmage and the Bobcat defense made a number of stops at or behind the line of scrimmage, giving Hilton Head’s quarterback Michael Julian a rough night.

With players, families and friends gathered around him at the end of the game, Cribb told his team “You’ve got something real special here. Don’t take it for granted.”

He said that what made them so successful this year was “our work ethic, our character, our pride. There are a bunch of teams out there who would love to be in our place right now.

“And we get a lot of support. You have to work hard and you’ve got to have talent, but you can’t get anywhere without support,” Cribb said. “We get support from the families, a lot of support from the school. There are a lot of factors that go into our success.”

Playoffs begin next Friday and Hilton Head will meet Myrtle Beach, the team that ended Bluffton’s playoff run last year with the kind of performance that the Bobcats have given their opponents this year.

Bluffton will play the Georgetown Bulldogs.

Bluffton 13 20 12 13 - 58

Hilton Head 0 0 6 0 - 6

SCORING SUMMARY

1st QUARTER

4:12 BLUFFTON C.J. Frazier 12-yard TD pass to Marquis Webber

PAT Mallie Sprouse

2:19 BLUFFTON C.J. Frazier TD pass to

PAT wide

2nd QUARTER

11:44 BLUFFTON Frazier shovel pass to Boyles for 24-yard run.

PAT Sprouse

6:09 BLUFFTON Frazier hand-off to Duncan Adkins for 59-yard run.

Two-point conversion failed.

2:07 BLUFFTON Frazier 12-yard pass to Boyles.

PAT Sprouse

3rd QUARTER

4:30 BLUFFTON Frazier 23-yard TD pass to Demetrius Smalls.

PAT wide

3:47 HILTON HEAD Michael Julian shovel pass to James Sanders who ran 75 yards for TD.

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